Introduction
The Collaboration Center for Nuclear Engineering Research (hereafter Center) was established on January 1, 2006. The Center's mission is to promote collaborative nuclear engineering research among JAEA, academia, and the domestic and international industrial sectors.
The Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate with the cooperation of the Industrial Collaboration Promotion Department played a central role in establishing the Center.

The Center's role
The Center's role is to be the focal point for promoting Japan's nuclear energy engineering expertise. As one of JAEA's missions, the Center will foster intensive applied R&D to benefit society by enhancing cooperation between the business and industrial sectors and academia.
The Center hopes to be a platform to promote effective industrial research domestically and internationally.

The Center's management
The Center's management will be comprised of a Special Advisory Board to examine the Center's work and a technical investigation group to evaluate and coordinate research themes with industry.
To encourage industrial sector participation, maximum restraints will be imposed to assure confidentiality when needed by having a formal confidentiality contract in effect. Further, efficient utilization of the research and development capabilities of the industrial sector will be emphasized, and the effective use of JAEA's facilities and equipment will be employed for research themes possessing especially high potential for practicality.

The Center's organization
The Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate's Director General currently holds the position of the Center's Director. The center will be comprised of R&D groups which will be under the direction of the Center's Director. These groups will be under the direction of the Center's Director. These groups will include leaders from the industrial sector to coordinate the selection of research activities. This system will foster cooperation among JAEA's related Directorates, academia and industry.
The Center will ascertain the merits of ideas for exploitation areas for energy development prior to the establishment of the Special Advisory Board within the Center.

The Center's activities
The Center has executed a contract between KOBE STEEL, LTD that involves the development of comprehensive nuclear material technology. This initial collaborative contract with industry specifically addresses advanced reprocessing materials. An advanced reprocessing materials development group has been established. It has begun research and development of applicable materials for an advanced nuclear power system.
The center is presently located in the Tokai Research and Development Center in Ibaraki Prefecture. We hope firms from both domestic and international firms will investigate and participate in the opportunities available here.
The Center hopes to play a decisive role in advancing nuclear engineering research by close cooperation with the industrial sector.
We look forward to your consideration and participation in the activities of the newly established Nuclear Engineering Research Collaboration Center.

• Chart 1 Center's structure (PDF,20kB)